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Hmm... Foxmarks?

Hmm... Foxmarks?

Posted Jul 3, 2008 6:07 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
Parent article: Mozilla plans for Firefox 3 and beyond

To me Weave looks more like Google Browser Sync then Foxmarks. I was happy user of GBS for a long time and when they refused to port it to Firefox 3 it was sad news indeed. Weave is not compatible with Firefox 2 while Firefox 3 is not compatible with Dapper so in the end I have NO solution which works for me today. May be someone can make GBS<->Weave bridge?


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Hmm... Foxmarks?

Posted Jul 3, 2008 7:59 UTC (Thu) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]

I personally stopped using GBS because I got worried about leaving all my passwords in the
hands of somebody else.

I am now looking for a solution where I could take all of them with me, or host them encrypted
somewhere... Didn't look at Weave yet, but I hope that's the kind of things it allows. If it's
just another GBS, then there's too much security risk involved.

Hmm... Foxmarks?

Posted Jul 3, 2008 22:53 UTC (Thu) by joedrew (guest, #828) [Link]

Data sent to Weave is encrypted client-side, and version 0.2.0 (released very recently) has
experimental support for synchronizing open tabs, saved passwords and form data in addition to
bookmarks, browsing history and cookies.

There are also plans to support getting your bookmarks and other data from browsers other than
your own by using Javascript to decrypt your data.

Hmm... Foxmarks?

Posted Jul 4, 2008 13:26 UTC (Fri) by pointwood (guest, #2814) [Link]

Google have released it as open source now:
http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/06/24/goog...

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